To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.
